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The weakness in the Coles and Wesfarmers share price has raised speculation that the $21.9 billion bid could be threatened.

Bonds Rise

Don't be surprised if US financial markets get another dose of jitters this week as market interest rates again rise on good economic news.

Oil Jumps

Just as the International Energy Association and others forecast, it's July and world oil prices are straining upwards.

Economy ‘Stretched’?

Interest rates will move to the forefront of the Australian economic debate this week with housing finance and labour force figures due for release.

CSR’s Sweet And Sour Spot

It was an interesting AGM for CSR yesterday.

US Housing Has A Way To Drop

Signs are emerging that there will not be any upturn in the US housing sector before the first quarter of 2008.

But It’s Not The End Of The World

The past few weeks have seen lots of gloom surrounding the investment outlook.

Lead’s Boom

After spending more than a year being the ugly duckling of the commodity markets, in apparent disfavour from speculators and others, lead is having its time at the top of the heap.

BHP Grows Oil

The resources boom goes on, despite some fraying at the edges with the impact of the higher Australian dollar, labour and resources shortages and slowing prices

Situations: Coles, SIP, TLS

Those Coles shareholders wondering about why there's a discount with the Wesfarmers' offer price should remember one thing.

Kagara’s Bad Miss

Base metal miner, Kagara Zinc, has cut its 2006-07 profit forecast by $45 million following problems at its Queensland operations.

Cars Boom

Higher oil and petrol prices were partly blamed for the slower than expected rise in retail sales in May, but they have not dented our appetite for motor vehicles with the million unit sales mark cracked for the first time in the 2007 financial year when it ended last Saturday

Coles, Wesfarmers’ Shares Down

Shares in Coles and its groom, Wesfarmers, fell as expected yesterday in the wake of their $22 billion, mostly scrip wedding.

Situations: Rio, Crane

Rio Tinto has shown confidence in the outlook of the aluminium industry in giving the green light to the $2.1 billion expansion of the Yarwun alumina refinery at Gladstone in central Queensland.

Market Doesn’t Like Fairfax Role In SBC Split

The stockmarket has anointed Fairfax the loser in its evaluation of the $1.3 billion carve-up of Southern Cross Broadcasting.

SIP Plunges

The market yesterday administered one of the biggest hidings seen for some time to a leading industrial stock when it sold down the shares of Sigma Pharmaceuticals by 20 per cent after a surprise profit downgrade.

Coles, Wesfarmers Marriage Looms

They will be line-ball businesses: Coles under the ownership of Wesfarmers and its rival, Woolworths.

FXJ, MMG To Split SBC

The slow-moving Fairfax media group has finally roused itself to do a cross media deal that will take it into radio and TV.

Australian Resources Boom Ages

There was a small downturn in the Reserve Bank's Index of Commodity Prices in June, continuing a phase that began in March when the value of the Australian dollar started rising.

Highs For Aussie, Kiwi Dollars

It's the news the Reserve Bank of Australia wants to see, it's probably not the news its New Zealand counterpart is too enthusiastic about.

WES Alone At Coles-Seven Ups GRD

Wesfarmers has made a bid for Coles on its own after the turmoil in debt markets saw the European buyout group, Permira withdraw, taking with it the local equity group, Pacific Equity Partners.

The Year Ahead

So local markets have had their fourth year of outperformance.

US Markets Strong As Well

Despite a weak performance for June, all three US market indexes gained for the quarter.

Bonds Down, Worries Up

Bond yields down on more worries about easy money, subprime mortgages, junk bonds and hedge funds.

API Weak, No One To Bid?

If Australian Pharmaceutical Industries thought it would soften the impact of a poor result by reporting the bare bones of the 2007 figures on Tuesday evening, it failed.

TPG Goes, But Tries To Stay In Coles Race

And then there was one.

US Rates Steady

The US Federal Reserve's Open Markets Committee declined to touch interest rates at the end of its two day summer meeting in Washington which ended early Friday morning, Australian time.

Billions Lost In Nervy Markets

It won't exactly be the finish to the financial year that everyone was hoping for a week or so ago when it seemed as though we had shaken off those early June blues about rising interest rates and falling Chinese stockmarkets.

GRD Cops A Bid, Transfield Sold Off

Kerry Stokes' Seven Network Group will determine the success of the takeover approach to GRD by Transfield Services.

Coca Cola Amatil, Qantas Upgrades

The market tasted then rejected the first half earnings upgrade from Coca-Cola Amatil.

API, SIP Not On

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries releases what is expected to be an uninspiring annual profit later today.

Xstrata’s Bid For Gloucester Frustrated

Has the very acquisitive Swiss based mining giant, Xstrata, been shut out of an Australian-linked deal for the second time in a month?

Health Of The States

So we've just read the big picture. Here's the NAB's look at the states in much more detail.

Health Of The Nation

As we approach the end of the 2006-07 financial year the National Australia Bank has produced another look at how the national economy is travelling.

Behind The Nickel Slump

From the all time highs of around $US54,000 a tonne two months ago, nickel has undergone a significant correction, with prices down 25 per cent since early this month.

IPL’s Indonesian Fertiliser Play